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Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Vayosha
“That day God saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lyin...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-v’Charot Imo haBrit
“Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise. You alon...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-VaYivarech David
“David praised God in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, “Praise be to you, God, the...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Psalms 146-150
Psalm 146: “Praise God, O my soul! I will praise God while I live, I will make music to my Lo...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Yehi Chivod
Rabbi Chanina bar Papa expounded: May the glory of God endure forever; let God rejoice in His...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Ha'Aderet v'ha'Emunah
The Sefer haRokeiach teaches that Psalm 136, the Hallel haGadol, the Great Hallel, is actuall...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Psalm 124
"A Song of Ascents, by David. Had not God been with us, let Israel declared it now! Had not G...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Psalm 123
"A Song of Ascents. To You I raised my eyes, O You Who dwell in the heavens (Psalms 123:1)...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Psalm 122
“A Song of Ascents, by David. I rejoiced when they said to me, "Let us go to the House of God...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Psalm 121
“A Song of Ascents. I raise my eyes to the mountains; from where will my help come (to see Ps...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Psalm 98
“Call out to God, all inhabitants of the earth, open your mouths in joyous songs and play mus...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Psalm 34
“Turn from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it (Psalms 34:15).” The theme of peace spe...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Psalm 19
“For the Conductor; a song of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the expanse of...
Festival Prayers-Succot-Psalm 92
“My eyes have seen my vigilant foes; when those who would harm me rise up against me, my ears...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Psalm 93
“God will have reigned, He will have donned grandeur; He will have donned might and girded Hi...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Psalm 135
“Whatever God wished, He did, in heaven and on earth; in the seas and all the depths. He rais...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Psalm 136
“To Him Who alone performs great wonders, for His kindness endures forever (Psalms 136:4).” F...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Psalm 90
“May the pleasantness of My Master, our Lord, be upon us, our handiwork, May He establish for...
Festival Prayers-Succot Kavanot-Psalm 91
“He will charge His angels for you, to protect you in all your ways (Psalms 91:11).” Perhaps ...
| Shir ha-Shirim XI: Part Two: Learning to Sing the Torah: Sefirah 1 |
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 We have learned: Rabbi Akiva said: “Far be it from anyone in Israel to dispute that the Song of Songs renders the hands unclean (the Rabbis ruled that scrolls of the Bible should render the hands unclean, so as to prevent them
being handled disrespectfully. With respect to the Song of Songs, however, some hold that there was a dispute), for the whole world only existed, so to speak, for the day on which the Song of Songs was given to it. Why so? Because all of the Writings are Holy, and this is Holy of Holies. (Shir Hashirim Rabbah 1.1:11, part two)
On the second night of Pesach we begin to count the Omer, the 49 steps that take us from Pesach to Shavuot, the day of the Revelation at Sinai. Rabbi Akiva is reminding us that God refers to the Torah itself as a Song, and just as the world exists only in the merit of Torah, so too, the world exists only in the merit of those being able to sing the Song of Torah, the Song of Songs with the same joy they Torah was sung by God to Israel at Sinai.
On this, the first night of the counting of the Omer, we commit ourselves to strive over the next 49 days to join in the Song of Torah, the Song of Songs.  |
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